Swedish name: Genus, kön, kropp: teorier och debatt
This syllabus is valid: 2010-09-06 valid to 2011-09-04 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
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Course code: 2KC006
Credit points: 15
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Gender Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
This is a cross-disciplinary course on biological and constructionist explanatory models for giving meaning to sex and gender. The course is divided into two modules. The first module, Conceptualizing gendered bodies: historical and contemporary understandings and debates (7,5 ECTS) begins by introducing central concepts together with historical and contemporary frontiers of debate and knowledge in the field. This is followed by highlights from the fields of medicine, biology and psychology; disciplines where collisions between standpoints have been particularly marked. The second module Contemporary theoretical issues: evolution, sexualities, reproduction and parenthood (7,5 ECTS) engages more deeply on theoretical issues. Three central areas of debate are in focus: sexualities, reproduction, and parenthood. Recent debates on biologism and evolution will also be addressed. Active participation by students in seminars is vital to the successful completion of the course. The course is taught in English.
Module 1: Conceptualizing gendered bodies: historical and contemporary understandings and debates (7,5 ECTS) After the course the student shall - be able to give an account of central concepts and theories, and research theories and debates about gender and sex. - be able to give an account of how these concepts and theories are used to give meaning to gender and sex in medicine, biology, and in psychology. - in a written assignment, within a restricted area, be able to critically scrutiny perceptions and theories where gender and sex are given meaning. Module 2: Contemporary theoretical issues: evolution, sexualities, reproduction and parenthood (7,5 ECTS) After the course the student shall - be able to give account of important theoretical standpoints towards gender and sex, in areas such as; sexualities, reproduction, and parenthood. - be able to make independent examinations about different theoretical standpoints, and how these standpoints are expressed in public debates about gender, nature and culture. - in a written paper, be able to make a critical analysis of theories and debates in one chosen theme area of the course.
Requierements: To be admitted to the course applicants must have completed three semesters of full time studies, equivalent to 90 ECTS, of which at least 15 ECTS must be an independent project or four semesters of full time studies equivalent to 120 ECTS. English proficiency equivalent to IELTS Academic Training minimum score 6.0 with no individual score below 5 (Tests taken before January 2005 not admissible or TOEFL minimum score 550 on paper based test and not below 4.0 on the TWE, Alternatively 213 on computer based test with iBT 79 is also required as well as Swedish B from Swedish upper secondary school or TISUS if the course is taught in Swedish.
Teaching is conducted through lectures and seminars. Seminars are compulsory, and students who are unable to participate may be given extra examination tasks. Emphasis is placed on students independent work.
The course will be examined successively through active participation in seminars, and through individual oral, and written examinations. The examination of module 1 consists of a written assignment. The examination of module 2 consists of one written paper, where a critical analysis of theories and debates in one chosen theme area is done. For both modules and the course as a whole, the following grades are given: Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with distinction (VG). In order to be awarded Pass for the entire course, it is necessary that all examinations and all compulsory teaching sessions have been passed. In order to achieve Pass with distinction on the whole course, this grade is demanded at both modules. A re-sit examination can be offered at the earliest ten days and at the latest three months after publishing information about the first examination. One more examination will be offered within the next year. A student who has passed the examination is not eligible for a new examination to raise grades. The option of a re-examination based on the original course syllabus will be available for at least two years after a student registered for the course. All in all, a student is given five chances of fulfilling the course examination. A student has the right to change examiner after failing two examinations for a course module, unless there are strong arguments against this. Academic credit transfer This course cannot be credited for other courses in gender studies at Umeå University.
Birke L.
Shaping biology (2003). Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'.
Included in:
Debating biology
London : Routledge : 2003. : ix, 322 p. : pages Chapter 3, pp 39-55 :
Birke Lynda
Sitting on the fence: Biology, feminism and gender-bending environments
Included in:
Women's studies international forum
Oxford : Pergamon P. : 1982- : pages 587-599 :
Code Lorraine.
Encyclopedia of feminist theories[Elektronisk resurs]c edited by Lorraine Code.
London ;a New York : Routledge : 2000. : xxvi, 530 p. :
http://ezproxy.its.uu.se/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=70627
ISBN: 0-203-28723-1z 0415132746
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Invidious comparisons: Imagining a psychology of race and gender beyond differences.
Cole Elizabeth, Stewart Abigail
Included in:
Political psychology
New York : Plenum : 1979- : pages 293-308 :
Davis Kathy
Feminist body/politics as world traveller: Translating Our bodies, ourselves.
Included in:
The European journal of women's studies.
London : Sage : 1994- : pages 223-247 :
Fausto-Sterling A.
The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture
Included in:
Debating biology
London : Routledge : 2003. : ix, 322 p. : pages Chapter 9, pp 123-144 :
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Bare bones of sex: Part 1, Sex and gender.
Included in:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago U. P. : 1975- : pages pp 491-528 :
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Sexing the brain: How biologists make a difference
Included in:
Sexing the body
New York : Basic Books : Books,c cop. 2000 : 473 s. : pages Chapter 5, pp. 115-149 :
Gremillion Helen
In fitness and in health: Crafting bodies in the treatment of Anorexia nervosa
Included in:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago U. P. : 1975- : pages pp 381-414 :
Grosz Elizabeth
Volatile bodies : toward a corporeal feminism
Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press : cop. 1994 : xvi, 250 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-32686-9 (inb.)
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Hamberg Katarina
Biology, gender and behaviour. A critical discussion of the biological models used for explaining cognitive and behavioural gender differences.
Included in:
Psychology of gender identity
New York : Nova Science Publishers : cop. 2005 : 178 s. : pages pp 127-144 :
Hayden Sara
Re-claiming bodies of knowledge: an exploration of the relationship between feminist theorizing and feminist style in the rhetoric in the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
Included in:
Western journal of communication.
Portland, Or. : Western Speech Communication Association : 1992- : pages pp 127-163 :
Jordanova Ludmilla
The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
Included in:
Social history of medicine
Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press : 1988- : pages pp 361-381 :
Is it sex or is it gender?
Kim JS, Nafziger AN
Included in:
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
St. Louis, Mo : Mosby : 1960- :
Krieger Nancy
Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections and why does it matter?
Included in:
International journal of epidemiology
Oxford : Oxford U. P. : 1972- :
Differences, similarities or inequalities in the study of gender in psychology
Magnusson Eva, Marecek Jeanne
Included in:
Gender and culture in psychology: theories and applications
Stockholm : Natur & Kultur : 2010 : pages 12 :
Malson Helen
Woman under erasure: Anorexic bodies in postmodern context
Included in:
Journal of community & applied social psychology.
Chichester, W. Sussex : John Wiley : pages 137-153 :
Marecek Jeanne
Social suffering, gender, and women’s depression
Included in:
Women and depression
Cambridge ;a New York : Cambridge University Press : 2005 : xviii, 582 s. : pages 283-308 :
Shields Stephanie
Functionalism, Darwinism and the psychology of women: A study in social myth.
Included in:
Seldom seen, rarely heard
Boulder : Westview Press : 1992 : 459 s. : pages 79-106 :
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Our bodies, ourselves for the new century : a book by and for women
New York : Simon & Schuster : 1998 : 780 p. :
ISBN: 0-684-84231-9
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Tuana Nancy
The less noble sex : scientific, religious, and philosophical conceptions of woman's nature
Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 1993 : xii, 224 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-36098-6 (alk. paper)
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Birke L.
Shaping biology. Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'
Included in:
Debating biology
London : Routledge : 2003. : ix, 322 p. :
Busfield Joan
Men, women, and madness : understanding gender and mental disorder
Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press : 1996 : xiv, 287 p. :
ISBN: 0-8147-1278-9
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Fausto-Sterling A.
The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture
Included in:
Debating biology
London : Routledge : 2003. : ix, 322 p. :
Mansfield Nick
Subjectivity : theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
New York : New York Univ. Press : 2000 : ix, 198 s. :
ISBN: 0-8147-5651-4 (hft.)
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Ussher Jane M.
Women's madness : misogyny or mental illness?
Hemel Hempstead : Harvester Wheatsheaf : 1991 : 341 s. :
ISBN: 0-7450-0831-3
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Debating biology : sociological reflections on health, medicine and society
Williams Simon J.q (Simon Johnson), Birke Lynda., Bendelow Gillian
London : Routledge : 2003. : ix, 322 p. :
ISBN: 0-415-27902-X
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Andenæs Agnes
Neutral claims, gendered meanings: Parenthood and developmental psychology in a modern welfare state.
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Annfelt Trine
From soft fathers to the right of the sperm? Biologism as a heteronorming resource
Included in:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. : pages 181-201 :
Birns Beverly
I. Attachment theory revisited: Challenging conceptual and methodological sacred cows
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Butler Judith
Is kinship always already heterosexual?
Included in:
Differences
Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 1989- :
Cleary Rose J.
III. Bowlby's theory of attachment and loss. A feminist reconsideration
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Critical studies of gender equalities : Nordic dislocations, dilemmas and contradictions
Magnusson Eva, Rönnblom Malin, Silius Harriet
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-7061-058-5
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Fausto-Sterling Anne
The Rodent’s Tale
Included in:
Sexing the body
New York : Basic Books : Books,c cop. 2000 : 473 s. : pages 195-232 :
Franzblau Susan H.
II. Historicizing attachment theory: Binding the ties that bind.
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Kitzinger Celia
Extract from The Social Construction of Lesbianism.
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Kraus Cynthia
Naked Sex in Exile: On the Paradoxes of the ‘Sex Question’ in Feminism and in Science.
Included in:
NWSA journal
Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp. ;a Bloomington : 1988- :
Nentwich Julia C.
New Fathers and Mothers as Gender Troublemakers? Exploring Discursive Constructions of Heterosexual Parenthood and their Subversive Potential.
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Rahman Oazi
The neurodevelopment of human sexual orientation.
Included in:
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews.
Fayetteville, N.Y. : ANKHO International : 1978- :
Deconstructing the essential father.
Silverstein Louise, Auerbach Carl
Included in:
The American psychologist
Washington,c 1946- : 1946- :
Butler Judith
Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix.
Included in:
Gender trouble[Elektronisk resurs]b feminism and the subversion of identity
New York : Routledge : 1999. : xxxiii, 221 p. : pages 45-100 :
Butler Judith
Undoing gender
New York : Routledge : cop. 2004 : viii, 273 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-96922-0 (alk. paper)
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Foucault Michel
The history of sexuality.n Vol. 1,p The will to knowledge
Harmondsworth : Penguin : 1990 : 168 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-026868-5
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Haraway Donna
Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936
Included in:
Social text
Madison, Wis. : Coda P. : 1979- :
Hyde A.
The politics of heterosexuality-a missing discourse in cancer nursing literature on sexuality: A discussion paper.
Included in:
International journal of nursing studies.
London : Pergamon : 1963- :
Katz Jonathan
The invention of heterosexuality
University of Chicago Press ed. : Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 2007 : ix, 291 p. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039623.html
ISBN: 978-0-226-42601-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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McClintock Anne
Imperial leather : race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest
London : Routledge : 1995 : xi, 449 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-90889-2 (inb.)
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